The Lightbox
Museums & Science Centres · Guildford, Surrey
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Closed — opens tomorrow at 10am
🏠 Indoor1–33–58–1212–16🆓 Free entryEducational☔ Rainy-day friendlyMemberships availableSchool holiday activities
What’s there
- Café on site
- Paid parking
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
- Relaxed / SEN sessions
- SEN friendly
Closest: Brewery Road pay & display car park (GU21 4ND; temporary closure notice on venue site). Victoria Place shopping centre multi-storey within 5-min walk. 3 disabled bays at the venue, bookable in advance on 01483 976049.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
The Lightbox is an award-winning contemporary art gallery and museum in the heart of Woking, Surrey, showing changing art exhibitions alongside Woking's Story local history collections. General admission to the ground floor gallery, courtyard cafe and shop is free, and under-18s visit the main exhibition floors for free too. Families can explore the free Make and Play area on the second floor with its magnetic pattern wall, sculpture station and bean bags, borrow sensory items and PECS from the Art Cart, or join seasonal family workshops and weekend drop-in drawing sessions in the Lightbox Studio. The venue runs relaxed openings on the last Sunday of every month for visitors with communication or sensory needs, and the building has level access with a lift to all floors. Open Wednesday to Sunday, closed Monday and Tuesday.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Nappy sacks
- Hair bobbles
- Spare socksThe single most reliably useful thing on this list.
- Toddler reins
- Pushchair buggy board
- Portable phone charger
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